**God is smiting Turkey for its intransigence in allowing Sweden and Fenland join NATO.**
And God told you that directly? Are you a prophet of the LORD? Or are you assuming?
You need to be clear about the source of your claim.
Yes, God judges man, often using natural disasters, wars, pestilences, etc.
The earthquakes are the jv team compared to Fowchi and friends. When God gave David a choice of punishment for Israel, faced with either man’s judgment or God’s judgment, David chose God’s judgment; because God is much more merciful than man.
In that case after last night's Grammys, we're in big trouble.
There seems to be a misconception out there that I somehow know the mind of God. I do not claim that degree of prescience, nor did I ever imply that I could. I was speaking as an observer only, and trying to attach a plausible explanation in my own mind.
Correlation does not imply causation. Because Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did in fact show his disagreement with the possibility of including Finland and Sweden in an expansion of NATO, that may or may not have had an influence on the judgment of God, but the judgment of God was by no means limited ONLY to that act of international relations. There are any number of other reasons, but to this observer, this is but one of many that come to mind.
How hard a fetch upside the head do some folks have to have to realize their personal error may in fact be an error?
Righteous anger has its place. But there is also an obligation upon those who exercise it to be sure of their ground before they lash out.